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\n\n New Canaan\, CT – Ready for something a little different from Silvermine Arts Center? Fairfield County’s preeminent vis ual arts center will host an exciting photography exhibit through December 20\, 2012 with an opening reception to be held Sunday\, November 11 from 2- 4pm. ‘Important Incidentals’ a Guild Group Photography Show fe atures works by graphic artist/photographer Miggs Burroughs\, fine art pho tographers Leigh Leibel and Torrance York\, commercial and fine art photog rapher Jeremy Saladyga as well as photographers Alan Shulik and Majorie Gi lette Wolfe.
\n\n “Photography does not initially come to m ind when one thinks of Silvermine Guild of Artists\,” says Jeremy Saladyga \, whose studio isbased out of New Fairfield\, CT. “But the exhibitors ap plied for a show two years ago after we realized there had not been a guil d member photography show since any of us we were juried into the guild.”
\n\n The title: ‘Important Incidentals’ can refer to fleeting but significant moments\, observations made in passing\ , or interruptions to an expected norm. “The phrase can also relate to a detail whose presence changes the meaning of a whole or to a pointed juxta position\,” says York. With this concept as a base the exhibiting photog raphers branch out and connect their aesthetic interests.
\n\n For Westport\, CT artist Miggs Burroughs\, his “Newd” series of lenti cular images allow the viewer to share the experience of the person depict ed\, who becomes nude while viewing paintings of nudes in a museum setting .
\n\n “My images capture an assortment of women in a galle ry\, admiring various nude masterpieces by Matisse\, Miro and others\,” he says. “Through the “magic” of lenticular imagery\, we can see the women’ s clothes vanish as they yearn to become one with the women in the paintin gs. The show is called “Important Incidentals”\, and here\, this very comm on gallery experience\, for us\, and for the women in the photos\, takes o n unexpected significance\, as we witness the profound impact these master pieces are having on those who view them.”
\n\n In her larg e-scale photograph\, Self Portrait #9\, New Canaan artist Leigh Liebel sho ws the figure of the artist as a metaphorical Odysseus intersecting the pe aceful horizon of a rooftop infinity pool and the city skyline in the dist ance.
\n\n “In “Self-Portrait #9”\, I am a metaphorical Ody sseus\; an important incidental dissecting an horizon of illusion. Inform ed by the early twentieth century poem “Ithaka” by Constantine Cavafy\, my photograph references the familiar story of The Odyssey as metaphor for t he journey of life and the discovery of many new harbors.”
\n\n Torrance York’s images from the series ‘Refractions\,’ reveal the chi ld subject as seen through a reflection or otherwise mediated element such as a glass of water on the dining table\; an optically challenging perspe ctive that asks us to create our own understanding of what we are shown.\n
\n “On the surface photography realistically captures what we see\, but what is the effect of an obstacle between the camera and sub ject?” she asks. “In this case\, photography can capture what we cannot see with our own eyes in a single glance.”
\n\n For Marjori e Gilette Wolfe\, a simple visual incident becomes her subject and is abst racted as a series of variations are presented side by side. Alan Shulik offers a remarkable landscape showing mesquite trees on the edge of a fiel d of sand dunes\, made exceptional by a ray of white light peeking through the storm clouds overhead and illuminating the scene.
\n\n Finally\, Jeremy Saladyga\, using an unexpected perspective from ground l evel\, captures a moment in the chaos of everyday life—a pedestrian filled street intersection in New York City or a rural carnival scene-- and with in that environment we draw relationships among the participants in the sc ene imposing our own meaning on the story.
\n\n “The two ph otographs included in the show are from an ongoing series titled: ‘Balance \,’ which deals with the landscape and the human presence\,” he explains. “Both images’ main characters are children of different ages involved in a real life moment that must have the most important significant meaning t o them at the split second\, yet in the grand scheme of their life these m oments are only fleeting.”
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\n\n For more information visit www.silvermi neart.org or call 203.966.9700
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\n\n Leigh Leibel is a fine art photograph er specializing in portraiture and documentary photography. Originally fr om New Canaan\, CT she now works in NYC. Leigh is a former executive prod ucer at CNN. She has exhibited at Katonah Museum and Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and was an Aldrich 'Radius' emerging artist. www.leighli ebel.com
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\n\n Torrance York’s landscape projects include Road Works shot i n Connecticut and the Hudson Valley\, and Functional Ground. The new seri es included in the group show\, Important Incidentals\, is titled Refracti ons. In 2010 York was awarded a Connecticut Artist Fellowship grant from the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism. She has exhibited in sol os shows at Silvermine Guild Galleries in New Canaan\, Connecticut\, the N ew Canaan Library\, and Thos. Moser in New York City. She was one of twel ve artists included in the regional Radius: Emerging Artists 2007 exhibiti on co-organized by the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and the Ridgefield Guild of Artists. She has exhibited in additional group shows locally and nationally. York has won numerous awards for her artwork including First Place from New York Times art critic Benjamin Genocchio in the 2008 Ridge field Guild Annual Juried show\, and Second Place from gallerist Peter Mac Gill in the Silvermine Galleries’ SPECTRA 2007 National Photography Trienn ial. She has been published twice in The Photo Review\, and in January 2 010 was featured in the Silver Eye Center for Photography New Works Galler y Online. In 1994 she was a resident artist at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass\, Colorado. York serves on the Board of the Educational Vide o Center in NYC where she formerly taught documentary video. She is an Ar tist Member of Silvermine Guild Arts Center and teaches photography throug h a Carver Center after school program at Norwalk High School. Her photog raphy is represented in New York City by Littlejohn Contemporary. York ea rned an MFA in photography from Rhode Island School of Design and a BA fro m Yale. www.torranceyorkstudio.com
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\n\n Miggs Burroughs is a lifelong resident of Westp ort\, and full time graphic artist since 1972. Miggs has designed hundred s of logos\, ads\, brochures and websites for commercial and non-profit cl ients throughout Fairfield County. He has created award-winning posters fo r Save The Children\, The American Red Cross and Baskin-Robbins\, several covers for TIME magazine\, a U.S. Postage Stamp\, an Easter Egg for the Wh ite House\, and the Westport Town Flag\, are among his more celebrated des igns\, some of which hang in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington\, D .C. His early Pop Art style paintings and prints were shown in galleries i n Boston and New York\, as well as part of an installation at 77 Water Str eet in New York City\, which\, after almost 30 years\, appeared on the fro nt page of the Wall Street Journal as the centerpiece of a controversy ove r art and censorship. As a member of the Westport Arts Center and the Silv ermine Guild in New Canaan\, he has recently won much acclaim for his work with lenticular imagery\, which has also been exhibited in several one-ma n shows throughout Fairfield County since 2003 - winning several “Best in Show” awards. Miggs is a 1967 graduate of the Carnegie Tech Drama Dept. i n Pittsburgh (now Carnegie Mellon University). www.miggsb.com
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\n\n Jeremy Sala dyga has been a professional location photographer since graduating in 1995 with a BFA from Parsons School of Design/Parsons Paris and a minor i n Art Education. His specialties include Portraits\, Interiors and Events\ , and his work has appeared in many publications including People\, In-Sty le\, Martha Stewart and Time Out New York. His photographs have also recen tly been published in the book\, Knoll: A Modernist Universe. Jeremy’s pe rsonal photography work is influenced by the modern masters but incorporat es non-traditional cameras and lens such as pinhole and macro lenses to pr oduce his abstract work. His photographs have been exhibited in the Museum of the City of New York\, Foley Gallery in NYC and the Kehler Liddell Gal lery in New Haven. www.jeremysaladyga.com
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\n\n\nPhone : 203.966.9700\n\n1037 Silvermine Road\nNew Canaan\, CT\n06840\n\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20121111 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20121111 LOCATION:Silvermine Arts Center PRIORITY: RRULE:FREQ=DAILY;UNTIL=20121220;INTERVAL=1 SUMMARY:Important Incidentals - Photography Show at Silvermine Arts Center URL:http://www.silvermineart.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR